Salvi, managing equity partner of the Illinois personal injury firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., is honored in the areas of Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation by one of the most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 22, 2012
Patrick A. Salvi of the Illinois personal injury firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 in the fields of Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).
“It’s an honor to receive this recognition,” said Salvi, the firm’s managing equity partner and a repeat selection to The Best Lawyers in America. “Our law firm is dedicated to providing exceptional client service for personal injury and medical malpracticevictims in Chicago and throughout Illinois. I believe this honor reflects our entire firm’s commitment to our clients.”
For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers has been regarded by both the legal profession and the public as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.
Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Salvi established Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in 1982. Today, the firm features offices in Chicago and Waukegan and 10 lawyers who are supported by a staff of more than 25 paralegals, nurse paralegals and administrative assistants.
In addition to his repeat selection to Best Lawyers, Salvi recently received the 2011 Award for Trial Lawyer Excellence by The Jury Verdict Reporter and Law Bulletin Publishing Company.
His other accolades include being named among “The Leading American Attorneys of Illinois” by The Consumer Law Guidebook and “Top 5% of all Lawyers in Illinois” in a survey of legal peers conducted by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s Leading Lawyer Network.
Salvi also has an AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 peer review rating – the highest rating possible – in the highly distinguished Martindale-Hubbell® legal directory.
Salvi’s results include a recent $8.25 million settlement on behalf of a Chicago couple whose prematurely born son died at a Park Ridge hospital after receiving a lethal dose of sodium in his IV nutrient bag in the fall of 2010. (Case No. 11L003535, Cook County Circuit Court). Based on a review of the Law Bulletin’s Verdict Reporter, the settlement was the largest of its kind to be reported in Illinois.
In addition to his law practice, Salvi chairs the Law School Advisory Council and serves as an adjunct law professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Law, his alma mater.
About Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. is a leading Illinois personal injury law firm with offices in Chicago at 22 West Washington Street, Suite 1600, Chicago IL, 60602 (local phone number (312) 372-1227) and Waukegan at 218 North Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Waukegan, IL, 60085 (local phone number (847) 249-1227). In addition to representing clients in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, aviation and product liability cases, the firm focuses on car and truck accidents, airplane and train accidents, construction injuries, birth injuries, brain injuries, unsafe properties and animal attacks. The firm has obtained more than $650 million on behalf of its clients in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including 195 multi-million dollar verdicts or settlements. For more information, call (312) 372-1227 or use the firm’s online contact form.
